Perspectives of selected stakeholder groups in Nigeria on the federal and state fertilizer subsidy programs
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Date of publication
декабря 2009
ISBN / Resource ID
127512
Pages
14 pages
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This paper presents the results of interviews with 44 stakeholders in the Nigerian fertilizer sector eliciting their perspective on various aspects of the federal and state government fertilizer subsidy programs. The stakeholders interviewed include persons employed at state-level ministries of agriculture and the agricultural development programs (ADPs), agricultural input dealers, members of small farmers associations, and farmers not aligned with a farmers association. A key finding is that fertilizer is in high demand by farmers, many of whom would be willing to pay market price as long as the product is available
